standoff
Example Sentences
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The prospect of a longer-term standoff has replaced initial hopes of a swift resolution, leaving markets to grapple with an increasingly clouded outlook.
“We had a standoff for about a minute,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead it is an investigation into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell that has created a procedural standoff inside the Senate Banking Committee.
From Barron's
Instead it is an investigation into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell that has created a procedural standoff inside the Senate Banking Committee.
From Barron's
The standoff led to a surge of public goodwill for Anthropic and prompted two high-level OpenAI employees to resign, with one joining Anthropic.
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